An SSHD learns what your most commonly used data is, and then moves that data to the cache. Running a standard disk speed test will write a chunk of random information to the drive, and then read it ...

The CPU’s cache reduces memory latency when data is accessed from the main system memory. Developers can and should take advantage of CPU cache to improve application performance. Modern CPUs ...

In the eighties, computer processors became faster and faster, while memory access times stagnated and hindered additional performance increases. Something had to be done to speed up memory access and ...